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Title: X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Post by: Peter R on June 21, 2014, 12:15:55 AM Quick question that Google doesn't seem to know the answer to: do X.509 certificates (the kind used in the new bitcoin payment protocol) support signatures using bitcoin's secp256k1 elliptic curve? It seems that RSA is the most commonly used.
Title: Re: X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Post by: 12648430 on June 21, 2014, 01:01:05 AM Yes, you can do it with openssl. Command line example:
Code: openssl ecparam -out ec_key.pem -name secp256k1 -genkey Title: Re: X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Post by: Peter R on June 21, 2014, 05:22:03 AM Perfect. Thanks for the information 12648430.
Title: Re: X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Post by: Mike Hearn on June 24, 2014, 01:25:30 PM It should work but such a certificate would be very unusual.
Title: Re: X.509 certificate w. secp256k1? Post by: MiWCryptoCurrencyMA on July 28, 2014, 07:43:50 AM This is a fantastic idea. Thanks for the concept; I wrote this paper to discuss what you could do with this:
https://github.com/MiWCryptoCurrency/UTXOC/blob/master/UTXOCv1.pdf?raw=true The git repository also has scripts: https://github.com/MiWCryptoCurrency/UTXOC/ * eckey2coin.py (to easily generate the address + QR code, based on pycoin key utils (ku). * utxocsr.py (to generate a certificate signing request from a raw EC key; and embed the transaction hash in the x509v3 Subject Alternative Name. |